...grand turning point of his life. In "the reason of church government urged against prelacy," he speaks of "the church to whose service, by the intentions...destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions; till arriving to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who...

...hands by a " successor of the Apostles" at * " In the service of the Church, by the intentions of ray parents and friends, I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolution : till coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church,...

...it the meanest uuder-service, if God by his secretary Conscience enjoin it. it were sad for me, if I should draw back ; — for me especially now when...intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined of a * The Muses, alluding to the songs of the Sirens, which Plato places on the celestial spheres. t Again...

...it the meanest undcr-service, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for me if I should draw back ; for me especially now when all...church, to whose service, by the intentions of my parente and friends, I was destined of a child, and in my own resolutions ; till coming to some maturity...

...should have every advantage of education, in order that he might one day be an ornament of the Church? "The Church to whose service, by the intentions of...my parents and friends, I was destined of a child," is one of his own sayings in later life ; l and there can be little doubt that the intention existed...

...natural employment to which his great powers called him, and he himself entered into their intentions. " By the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined, of a child, to the service of the Church, and in my own resolutions." When precisely his own mind began to waver...

...it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for me if I should draw back ; for me especially, now when all...their aid to help, ease, and lighten the difficult labors of the church, to whose service, by the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined...

...the meanest under-service, if God, by His' secretary, Conscience, enjoin it, it were sad for me if I should draw back ; for me especially, now when all men offer their aid to help, * A horse, ass, or mule employed to carry baggage. ease, and lighten the difficult labours of the church,...

...mind against entering the chnrch — "the chnrch, to whose service," he says in one of his tracts, " by the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined of a child." And his father, apparently, was soon bronght to assent to this ahandonment of the yonng man's original...

...counsels inclined the parents to that purpose of which many years afterwards their son thus spoke : — ' The church, . . to whose service, by the intentions...my parents and friends, I was destined of a child. '5" At Allhallows Mr. Stock laboured with all his soul in the cause of his Lord. His early biographer...